WAENGENEND Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 (edited) Hello All, We installed on all our PC's the latest Product Update from 12-4-2021, but now when we would like to export a ICD to PDF, it removes all the sizes, only the arrows show. We escalated it to ironcad immediately but has anyone else these simular problems? All the best and stay safe MH 6 D10.pdf Edited April 14, 2021 by WAENGENEND Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hatch Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 (edited) We had reported pdf problems a week or two ago in IC2021. It was reported that IC2021 PU1 fixed those problems so we were going to do an update today but maybe not !!. So we did one seat anyway as a trial, for us it seems to be OK, se attached. test.pdf Edited April 14, 2021 by Mike Hatch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSIMMONS Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 6 hours ago, WAENGENEND said: Hello All, We installed on all our PC's the latest Product Update from 12-4-2021, but now when we would like to export a ICD to PDF, it removes all the sizes, only the arrows show. We escalated it to ironcad immediately but has anyone else these simular problems? All the best and stay safe MH 6 D10.pdf 2.43 MB · 6 downloads Yes, it is a bug in the internal exporter in IC. If you print to PDF it comes out fine. If the export button is used, all dimensions, titles, text off leaders, etc. goes away. - Spencer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary OConnor Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Yes the Export to PDF issue is logged and we are working on a Hotfix for that item and should have it and a few other small issues released at the end of the month. Print to PDF using the default Raster or Vector based on sheet contents will work fine and should have addressed the other issues mentioned by Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHORNBRO Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Good morning everyone, To piggy-back off of this a bit as well. I put together a simple test case to help determine what is/isn't working (as I am in the middle of putting together a fairly-extensive detail drawing package for work). I've attached here the parent ICS and ICD files along with 3 PDFs (using 3 different print/export settings). The snips below show snips from ICD & the 3 attached PDFs, highlighting the included and missing annotations. The green highlighter shows the correct/accounted-for annotations. The yellow highlighter indicates where an annotation is missing in the export. ICD Capture (Showing All Annotations): The above snip shows the ICD as desired for export/print. T-01 (EXPORT TO PDF): As others have noted, the above snip shows that the Export to PDF feature does not export dimensions, view names, and other annotations. T-01 (PRINT TO PDF): As you can see above, even with the bog-standard "Microsoft Print to PDF" operation, the weld note annotation does not get printed/exported into the PDF correctly (the weld symbols come in fine, but the note does not). T-01 (NITRO TO PDF): Using Nitro Pro to print to PDF seems to work correctly (although it took two attempts - the first attempt did not correctly print the weld note annotation, the same as "Microsoft Print to PDF"). I hope this helps to narrow-in on a solution, as the export/print to PDF function is integral to getting drawings out the door. Thanks, -Sam TEXT EXPORT TEST.ics TEXT EXPORT TEST.icd T-01 (EXPORT TO PDF).pdf T-01 (PRINT TO PDF).pdf T-01 (NITRO TO PDF).pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hatch Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Our goto is PDFCreator (https://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/download), that currently seems to work fine for our simple drawings, but I've not gone into the detail yet that you have with welding symbols etc, it may (or not !) work but I'd be interested to know. Just be careful at installation that it does not also install PDFArchitect its not needed. PDFCreator installs as a printer driver so can be used from whatever other applications you use. It's nothing to do with me/us even though I'm biging it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHORNBRO Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Thanks, Mike. We tend to use Nitro Pro here in the same capacity with generally good results. I will check out PDFCreator, though - variety is the spice of life! Cheers! -Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronKevin Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 I got Weld notes in the PDF printed from Microsoft to PDF: 333.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary OConnor Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 When using the Print to PDF, please let us know the settings on the Print dialog so that we can make sure we are testing apples to apples. That way we can narrow down why there may be a difference in the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSIMMONS Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 These are the print setting we are using here (Sam and I). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHORNBRO Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Spencer beat me to the punch on this one. Here are the settings I have tried for Microsoft Print to PDF. Main Print Dialog: Properties & Advanced Options: And naturally, in setting up these snips, when I used Microsoft Print to PDF this time, the weld note came in as intended. I haven't changed any settings since the previous post, so I'm at a loss as to what happened between then and now. Thanks for looking into this a bit further for us, Cary & Kevin! - Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hatch Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 PDFCreator settings - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dleczynski Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 I have been using such settings for many years and I am happy that I do not have to have such problems as above. Any other option results in poor quality. Join my settings -the thickness of the lines was important to me color graphics quality quality of 2D curves dopdf-7.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Morgan Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 Problem is when you try print as Vector, that leaves only the arrows in the print, Raster will be okey. But the downside is that the files are big when the PDF is printed. Change from Vector to Raster and you should be OK untill they fix the problem with Vector. Happy CAD-ding! //Morgan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAENGENEND Posted May 3, 2021 Author Share Posted May 3, 2021 (edited) Hello Cary, Any news in regards to the patch when it will be available? Br Willem Edited May 3, 2021 by WAENGENEND Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary OConnor Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 It will be out this week on the community downloads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSIMMONS Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Will this also be addressing the BOM being blank and moving on DWG export issue? It works, but you have to often (a majority of the time) do it twice before it will display correctly. Thanks. - Spencer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary OConnor Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 1 hour ago, SSIMMONS said: Will this also be addressing the BOM being blank and moving on DWG export issue? It works, but you have to often (a majority of the time) do it twice before it will display correctly. Thanks. - Spencer Has this been filed? If it has, do you know the incident number so that we can test against the changes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSIMMONS Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Cary, I thought it was, but I cant find it. I will make a different post in Bug section. - Spencer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSIMMONS Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 On 5/3/2021 at 9:41 AM, Cary OConnor said: It will be out this week on the community downloads. Any update on this one? We may be doing a large amount of exports soon, Thanks. - Spencer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronKevin Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Spencer, Did you try this hotfix: https://www.ironcad.com/product-update/2021pu1hf1/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SVAN GELDERN Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 IC Dudes, The hotfix worked nicely for the prints I had to generate today. Exports were clean, crisp and included both finish and weld symbols. Thanks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronKevin Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 Good to hear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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